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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1987-06-11

Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1987-06-11, page 01

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SO A Endorses
Allowing Yarmulkes
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Legislation introduced in
Congress to permit religious
Jews serving in the military
to wear yarmulkes is supported by the Synagogue
Council of America (SCA),
an umbrella organization of
U.S. Jewish religious organizations.
The legislation states that
"A member of the Armed
Forces may wear an item of
religious apparel if... (it is)
part of the religious observance of the religious faith
practiced by the member."
It is sponsored by Sen. Frank
Lautenberg (D. NJ), and has
20 Senate co-sponsors. .Representatives Stephen Solarz
(D. NY), Patricia Schroeder
(D. Colo.) and Jim Courter
(R. NJ) are co-sponsoring it
in the House.
Last year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the
Air Force did not have to
make an exception to its
dress code to allow a Jew,
Captain Simcha Goldman, to
wear a yarmulke. A 5-4 court
majority felt the yarmulke
threatened Air Force discipline.
Prominent Heart Surgeon Fired
From Position At Polish Hospital
Standing (1. to r.) are Rabbi Harold Berman, JFS
senior vice-president; Ronald Blank, JFS immediate
past president, and Henry Epstein, JFS president. Dr.
Earl Yaillen is shown seated as he signs the contract
making him executive vice-president of Jewish Family
Service.
Dr. Earl Yaillen Promoted
To Exeoutive Vioe President
Of Jewish Family Service
Dr. Earl Yaillen, execu:
tive director df Jewish Family Service, was promoted to
executive vice president of
the agency.
Ron Blank, JFS immediate past president, I indicated that"...-. the change in
title recognized the greater
scope Jewish Family Service has provided in its services since Dr. Yaillen became executive in 1980."
Dr. Yaillen explained that
more people are being
served by the Clinical Services Department "... due
to high staff productivity."
(CONTINUED ON PAGE -1)
PARIS, (JTA) - Marek
Edelman, a prominent heart
surgeon and one of the last
survivors of the 1943 Warsaw
Ghetto uprising, was fired
from his position at the Lodz
hospital last week and
denied a passport to travel
abroad, it was reported last
week by Le Monde. His wife
and family live in France.
According to Le Monde,
Edelman, 65, was dismissed
without explanation. The
paper noted that because of
the shortage of medical
practitioners in Poland, phy-
sicians are generally
allowed to continue working
after retirement age.
The paper quoted Edelman as saying he was refused a passport because "it
was probably considered
that such a visit (to France)
would endanger the security
of the Polish State."
As a young medical student in 1943, Edelman helped
organize and then led the
ZOB (Zydowska Orga-
nizacja Bojowa — Jewish
Fighting Organization). He
was brie of a handful of Jews
who managed to flee the
ghetto before it was razed by
the Germans,
After the war, he completed his medical studies in
Poland and worked as a sur
geon, chiefly in his native
city of Poznan. Although he
avoided politics, he became
one of the main spiritual
leaders of the Solidarity
Movement. He was imprisoned in 1981 for his statements in favor of Solidarity
'Oliver!'To Open June 13
In Roth/Resler Theatre
Gallery Players of the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center
opens the last show of the
season this Saturday evening, June 13, with the
musical Oliver!. Based on
the Charles Dickens novel
Oliver Twist, the characters,
of this Lionel Bart musical
adaptation spring to life as
Oliver (played by Stephen
Hood) outwits the conniving
Fagin(Rick Kesler) and his
gang of thieves to reign
triumphant in the end.
The fun of this play is
riches and Fagin his comeuppance, according to Larry
Samuels, co-producer. From
the time Oliver and the kids
in the home sing "Food,
Glorious Food" right
through the "Oom-Pah-Pah"
and "Consider Yourself at
Home," the Center's
Roth/Resler Theatre vibrates with songs and laughter, Samuels says.
Rob Johnson, technical di
rector at the Jewish Center,
designed the set that will
transport theatre goers to
Dickens' London of the 1800s.
Johnson's set designs include the critically acclaimed A Day in Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine for Gallery Players
and the Mikado for Columbus Light Opera.
'• Battered women are
nothing hew, based on the
Dickens character of Nancy
(Catherine Fountain), who is
so in love with Bill Sikes
(Eric Weisheit) that
although he beats her
unmercifully at times, she
continues to love him "As
Long As He Needs Me." He
stops heeding Nancy when
he murders her on London
Bridge, Samuels notes.
Oliver! runs June 13-28 at
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center, 1125 College Ave.
For show times and ticket
information, phone 235-2058.
Columbus Jewish Federation President Miriam Yenkin has been newly elected to
the position of national vice
chair of the United Jewish
Appeal (UJA), and Leslie
' Wexner, Federation Board
member, has been re-elected
to the same post, according
to Martin F. Stein, national
UJA chairman.
Columbus is one of only a
few U.S. cities who have two
community members serving as national vice chairs of
UJA. Both Yen! in and Wex-
was re-elected to the UJA's
Board of Trustees and Gordon Zacks continues in his
post as honorary national
chairman.
Leslie Wexner
Those appointed to
and its leader, Lech Walesa.
In 1983, Edelman refused
to join the Honorary Committee to commemorate the
40th anniversary of the
Ghetto uprising because of
its official sponsorship by
the Polish government.
Agudas Achim Synagogue
Appoints Rabbi Hillel Fox
Director of Youth Services
Yenkin, Wexner Elected
UJA National Vice Chairs
ner
Miriam Yenkin
were elected to their
Rabbi Hillel Fox has been
appointed director of Youth
Services for the Agudas
Achim Congregation, an-
the
positions at the May 19 UJA
Board of Trustees meeting.
In addition, Herbert Schiff
post of national vice chairpersons represent a select
group of national leaders
who, as part of their UJA responsibilities, are involved
in developing policies and
programs for this national
organization.
UJA, in partnership with
local Federations, including
Columbus, helps to raise
, funds to support humanitarian services to Jewish people
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 6)
Rabbi Hillel Fox
nounced Melvin L. Schottenstein, chairman of the
Board.
Rabbi Fox received
Smicha, rabbinic ordination,
from the Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, 111., in
1981 as well as certification
in practical rabbinics. In
1980, he received a bachelor
of science, magna cum
laude, from Loyola University in Chicago, 111., plus a
bachelor of Hebrew literature at the Hebrew Theological College.
Rabbi Fox enrolled in the
College of Dentistry, Ohio
State University, and, in
June, 1985, he received his
doctor of dental surgery. He
is currently associated in
dental practice with Doctors
Leonard and Stanley Wasserstrom in Olde Towne
East.
In 1984, while attending
dental school, Rabbi Fox
served as associate rabbi of
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at Ohio State University.
That same year he was the
official rabbi at the Alpha
Omega International Dental.
Convention in Cleveland.
In 1986 Rabbi Fox spent a
year in Israel, where he studied at the Kollel of the Bos-
toner Rebbe's Yeshiva in
Jerusalem. He served during this time as instructor at
, the Hebrew University,
Hadassah Dental School,
and as dentist in their Dental
Clinic and at the Shderot
Project Renewal Clinic and
at Kibbutz Ma'ale Gilboa.
More recently, Rabbi Fox
has served as youth director
and principal of Beth Jacob
Congregation in Dayton. In
his first year as youth director, his National Conference
of Synagogue Youth (NCSY)
"Lev Tahor" Chapter received the "Chapter of the
Year" Award.
Schottenstein noted that
"as the Agudas Achim grows
in the number of young families, we look forward to the
inspiration and knowledge
that Rabbi Fox will bring to
our youth program."
Heritage Tower
Officers To Be
Elected June 28
Elections for officers of
Heritage Tower will be held
Sunday, June 28, at 7 p.m. at
the Heritage Village Annual
Meeting in the Village Gardens, 1151 College Ave.
Nominated to serve as officers of Heritage Tower are
Marvin Katz, president;
Harold Levin and Barbara
K. Brandt, vice presidents,
and. Murray Ebner as associate treasurer. Continu- .
ing on the Tower Board:
Mrs. Joseph Schecter as vice
president; Mrs. Charles
Talis as secretary, and David Roth as treasurer. (The
list of nominated officers
published in the June 4 issue
of the Chronicle was incorrect.)
Serving on the Heritage
Village Nominating Committee were Sylvia Schecter,
chairwoman; J. Maynard
Kaplan, co-chairman; Mrs.
Ed Ellman; Mrs. Gerald
Friedman; Mrs. Herbert
Glimcher; Martin Greenberg; Allen Gundersheimei';
Richard Kohn; David Levison; Myer Mellman; Neil
Moss; Mrs. Jack Resler;
Mrs. Samuel Rubenstein;
Edward Schlezinger; Mrs.
Howard Schoenbaum; Mrs.
Albert Shkolnik; Morris Skilken; Fred Summer; Kenneth Warren; Mrs. Abe Wolman; Sol Zell.